Fountain · Madrid

Fuente Egipcia

Today: Fuente Egipcia, Madrid

Place
Madrid
Kind
Fountain
Built
1819 to 1850
What remains
Standing
Visiting
Open to visit

A fountain in the Egyptian revival style, with sphinxes and the god Canopus, which Fernando VII commissioned from Isidro González Velázquez, whose design is of 1819; it was not finished until 1850. In 1922 the Osiris group that crowned it disappeared, and in 1995 the sphinxes were replaced with replicas. It stands in the Retiro.

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